The group was also divided on the subject, so Baba decided that one day he would explain, and the next they should be quiet with him. Baba then stated:
Your work has to be defined. It has to be practical and yet divine — practical in the sense that in every life it can be achieved, not just sitting quiet, aloof, renouncing the world. I will give you new and original aspects of the same truth.
A form of Zoroastrian prayer is called kusti . All four prayers [said that morning] say the same thing. Since Babajan kissed me on the forehead, I bow down to my own Self. Why?
Someone said, "Because there is nothing else to bow down to."
That is my actual, continual experience.
Baba concluded by repeating what he had said earlier:
What is needed is to "become ," not only to see . You have to become what you already are . You are God, but you have to know how to become God. Christ humiliated himself to teach this: through love, become what you already are.
Baba came to see the group at Meherabad the next day, Saturday, 18 September 1954, at about 10:00 A.M. He inquired of each about their meditation and then said:
Today I will explain about trance and inner sight — samadhi. Trance, which the Sufis term haal and the Vedantists bhav, is just a momentary ecstasy which, in the true spiritual sense, has no great value. During this state of haal, one feels unconscious of his surroundings and of his own body, but conscious of an overpowering force of bliss pouring in on his soul. As soon as this bhav ends, he is just his ordinary self.
There are four different types of samadhi [trance]: yoga samadhi, tantric samadhi, nirvikalpa samadhi and sahaj samadhi.
Yoga samadhi and tantric samadhi have no importance spiritually. In them one feels at peace with everything and everyone, and finally finds his mind still. But as soon as this samadhi is over, he is again his own ordinary self. Most yogis, after this samadhi, feel the strain of illusion even more. It is like intoxication; one feels in harmony with everything for a while, but when the intoxication is over, one gets a headache. So, yoga samadhi and tantric samadhi are like getting drunk.